In a bizarre incident, an Australian airline had to deal with a "self combusting" iPhone as it landed in Sydney. Quick action by a crew member saved the day.
Regional Express, an Australian airline, issued a press release a few days ago covering an exploding iPhone. After landing, a passenger's iPhone "started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow." A nearby crew member quickly followed the recovery actions and extinguished the device, and no passengers or crew members were hurt.
The device is either an iPhone 4 or an iPhone 4S, though it's not clear which. The back glass is shattered and the scorch marks seem concentrated on the lower portion where the battery is located.
The event was reported to both the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau, the latter of which has taken the device for investigation. This isn't the first time a smartphone has exploded, and 2009 had a string of incidents related to iPhones. Apple has not commented on the matter.
It sounds quite scary as the last place you want the iPhone to explode is on a flight.
Hahaha..hmmm scary huh
Strange, since during landing it should have been switched off, no ?
No on ever turns their phone off. They just leave it in their pockets on silent.
Why is that strange? Do you take out your battery when you are told to turn it off? The battery is still supplying parasitic voltage to the phone.
Mabye he overclocked te cpu btw is that possible on iphone ???
It’s a 4s .. Look at the volume buttons and silent button… They are closer than the 4…
wrong again !!! it’s an iphone 4 GSM model – look at the model number in the lower left – A1332
(ps iphonehacks, i want credit for discovering this. thanks. ha)
and then put it on your cv and brag it to ur mommy
No the worst place is in your bedroom in the middle of the night while your asleep
Must be one of those new features for ios 5…
i bet on it was a message from Chief Quimby…..(if you don’t know who that is, you must be too young, so just google it)
Nice!!
The worst place is in the pocket, near the “nuts”
Agree! It happened to me once while driving with the phone in my pocket. Could feel my nuts getting warm then hot. Pulled the phone out, ripped the battery off and snapped it open just in time. Was the cells shorting out, dodgy insulation. Not an iphone though – Panasonic.
One would be so lucky to have an iphone explode in their pocket and get a piece of glass lodged in your leg, you’d never have to work again. #lawsuit (hah)
unless it was in your front pocket and hit your femoral artery and you died on the plane. well, i guess you still wouldn’t have to work again ha
Look at the apple logo. It has the Steve Jobs profile in it. Thats gotta be a new back glass he put on there or something he had done to the phone. Who knows how he modified it.
You know what. I read that on one of the other sites about the Jobs profile on it but now that I’m blowing the picture up it doesn’t look like it. I don’t know. Shrug, Shrug.
yeah, it’s just the way the glass is cracked
This message will self destruct in 10 seconds….
This would have been an excellent time to have a bodyguardz or invisibleshield back protector on and put it to the test. I’ll wait until they finish their investigation to see whether it’s an original or modded iphone. People have been replacing the batteries inside with aftermarket batteries that promise longer life so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case.
Would be useful if you actually had a removable battery. Problem fixed before it becomes a problem.
Just saying. 
I guess Siri hates landing and the flights all together ( some people throw up ect) but Siri just explodes
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I thought the iPhone 4s was the only one with dual antennas. (the black split on the medal casing around the phone). Could be wrong tho
Let’s hope for a complete recall and we all get replacements.
Siri: how can I help you
Passenger: Siri self destruct please
Every place is the last to hope an iPhone to combust.
new function: iexplode
Don’t want to alarm anyone but apparently Al-Qaeda have just placed an order for 1 million iPhones. A spokesman for Al-Qaeda Alec Waller said “After many years of research we have opted for Apples iPhone as it has all of the functions we will ever need in a mobile communication device”
